Interventional endovascular therapy: SPECT cerebral blood flow imaging compared with transcranial doppler monitoring of ballon angioplasty and intraarterial papaverine for cerebral vasospasm

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 71-75

  Lewis, David H ^a   Paul Elliott, J ^a   Newell, David W ^a   Eskridge, Joseph M ^a   Richard Winn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral vasospasm; Computed tomography; Single photon emission; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

EID: 54449086252     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1052-3057(99)80057-3     Document Type: Article

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